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dc.contributor.authorMenjívar, Cecilia
dc.contributor.authorLakhani, Sarah M.
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-29T22:42:05Z
dc.date.available2017-11-29T22:42:05Z
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.identifier.citationCecilia Menjívar and Sarah M. Lakhani, "Transformative Effects of Immigration Law: Immigrants’ Personal and Social Metamorphoses through Regularization," American Journal of Sociology 121, no. 6 (May 2016): 1818-1855.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/25517
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the enduring alterations in behaviors, practices, and self-image that immigrants’ evolving knowledge of and participation in the legalization process facilitate. Relying on close to 200 interviews with immigrants from several national origin groups in Los Angeles and Phoenix, the authors identify transformations that individuals enact in their intimate and in their civic lives as they come in contact with U.S. immigration law en route to and as a result of regularization. Findings illustrate the power of the state to control individuals’ activities and mind-sets in ways that are not explicitly formal or bureaucratic. The barriers the state creates, which push immigrants to the legal margins, together with anti-immigrant hostility, create conditions under which immigrants are likely to undertake transformative, lasting changes in their lives. These transformations reify notions of the deserving immigrant vis-à-vis the law, alter the legalization process for the immigrant population at large, and, ultimately, shape integration dynamics.en_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Pressen_US
dc.rights© 2016 by The University of Chicago.en_US
dc.titleTransformative Effects of Immigration Law: Immigrants’ Personal and Social Metamorphoses through Regularizationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorMenjívar, Cecilia
kusw.kudepartmentSociologyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1086/685103en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccessen_US


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